Next: The Patriarchs from Adam to Noah Life of Enoch Death of Adam and Gain (iv. Antiq., gives the names of these nine sons.ĥ2:6 So LXX and Vulg. but MT 'she.' In our Book it is generally the father who names the child.ĥ2:4 Pseudo-Philo, Bibl. Eliezer, Cain's wife was his twin-sister (xxi.).ĥ2:1 So Sam. If they were twins, then it that fact must have been meaningless, or else scripture would point it out and tell us why we needed to know that they were twins. There is great divergence as to these names in later writers. Nothing in the Bible shows Cain & Abel as being twins, only that they were first children of our original parents. Another daughter, ∪zûrâ (= 'well guarded'), was born later. He 6 began to call on the name of the Lord on the earth.ĥ1:3 i.e. (year of the sixth week) she bare him Enos. And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee Seth took ∪zûrâ his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bare yet nine sons. On the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built And Cain took Âwân his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch 3 at And in the sixth week heīegat his daughter ∪zûrâ. His wife again, and she bare him a son, and he 1 called his name Seth for he said 'God hath raised up a second seed unto us on the earth instead of Abel for Cain slew him.' 2 8. Of the fifth week they became joyful, and Adam knew And Adam and his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years, and in the fourth year Because of Cain's sin, he is branded with a mark and sent away. Out of jealousy, Cain take's his brother out into the field and kills him. Two brothers bring their sacrifices to God Abel's sacrifice is accepted, but Cain's sacrifice is not. We have all heard the story of Cain and Abel. And for this reason we announce when we come before the Lord our God all the sin which is committed in heaven and on earth, and in light and in darkness, and everywhere. The Untold Story of Cain and Abel By Jeff A. And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, 'Cursed is he who smiteth his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and heard say, So be it and the man who hath seen and not declared (it), let him be accursed as the other.' 6. And the Lord reproved Cain because of Abel, because he had slain him, and he made him a fugitive on the earth because of the blood of his brother, and he cursed him upon the earth.

And he slew him in the field: and his blood cried from the ground to heaven, complaining because he had slain him. And in the first (year) of the third jubilee,Ĭain slew Abel because (God) accepted the sacrifice of Abel, and did not accept the offering of Cain. To Abel, and in the fifth she gave birth to her daughter She gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth she gave birth And in the third week in the second jubilee Sacred Texts Bible Apocrypha Index Previous Next Book of Jubilees: The Book of Jubilees: Cain and Abel (iv.

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